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THE MVICHLGAP ,DAILY
SUNDAY, MAYG., 1923
SUNDAY, MAY -6',.1923
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EDITED BY SCgan
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"Ucweve' great the love may be that unites them, a man and woman
are always strangers In mind and intellect; they remain belligerents, they
belong to difherent races. There must always be a conqueror and a con-
quered, a master and a slave; now the one, now the other-they are never,
equal. They press each other's hands, hands trembling with amorous pas-
sign; but they never press them with a long, strong, loyal pressure, a pres-
sure which seems to open hearts and to lay them bare in a burst of sincere,
strong, manly affection. Wise men instead of marrying and bringing into
the world, as a consolation for their old age, children who will abandon
them, ought to seek a good, staunch friend, and grow old with him in that
community of ideas which can exist only between two men."
From "The Log," by De Maupassant.
URGE DEATH
"The desire to write perfectly of ,. Perhaps there is a man
beautiful happenings is, as the sayings
runs, old as the hills-and as immor-
tal. Questionless, there was many a cap, he stoops down and meets the
serviceable brick wasted in Nineveh cart with his head, he will be run over,
because finicky persons must needs be hopelessly mangled, killed. The man
deleting here and there a phrase in wants to die that is his affair. He
favor of its cuneatic synonym.; and won't button his shirt any more and
it is not improbable that when the the morning, he wears everything
outworn sun expires in clinkers its he has given up tying his shoes in
final ray will gild such zealots tinker- opn. his chest is bare and skinny;
ing with their "style." Some few he is to die . . .A man was lying
there must be in every ,age and every at the .point of death, he wrote a let-
land of whom life claims nothing, very ter to a friend, a note, a little request.
insistently save that they write per- The man died and left this letter. It
fectly of beautiful happenings" had a date and a signature, it was
From the Auctorial Induction to, written witih capitals and small let-
"The Certain Hour,".by James Iran-h ters although he who wrote it was to
Cabell. die-in an hour. That w' s'so strange.
He had even put the usual flourish un-
VANIT der his name. And an hour later he
See the Lady in the Mooa? No was dead . . .There was another
wonder it is hard for us to see her, 'man. He was lying alone in a little
She hardly looks like, our own. No. room, which was wood-panelled and
Her h,air is not bobbed. I . believe painted blue. What then? Nothing.
it is in a high old pompadour with In the whole wide world he is the one
maybe a little satin hat and a large who has got to die. That fills his
white plume. mind; he thinks about it till he is
See the Lady in the Moon? She worn out. He sees that it is evening,
doesn,'t look down on u3 anymore. that i ; is eight by the clock on the
Does she turn her head in shame of wall, and he can't make out -why it
men; or with the vanity of women only doesn't strike. Poor man, his brain
to show better her pretty neck? is, already falling asleep; the clock
See the Lady in the Moon? h;hs struck and he didn't notice it.
Then he makes a hole through his'
PIIILOSOPiIY mother's portrait on the wall-what
Once, when a madman boasted to a does he want with this picture now,
scarecrow that he, too, had tasted the and why should it be left whole when
great and lasting joy of scaring, the he is gone? His tired eyes fall upon
scarecrow retorted that only those the flower-pot on the table and he
who were stuffed with straw could reaches out his hand and pulls the big
know that joy. The madman left flower-pot slowly and deliberately so
him and pondered whether to accept that it falls on the floor and is'
the retort as a compliment or as an smashed to pieces. Why should it be
insult. But after a year had passed, left unbroken? Then he throws his
during which time the scarecrow had amber cigarette holder out of the win-
turned phil'osopher, the madman pass- dow. What does he want with that
ed by again and saw two crows build- any more? It seems so obvious to hintm
ing a nest under the scarecrow's hat. that he need not leave it behind. And'
Taken from the garblings of Kahlil; in a week the man was dead
Gibran's M-adman. From "Victoria," by Knut Hamsun.
GEXTLEMEN
"Of moral science they had little: but morals, without science, they hadI
abcut the same as we have. They Irad a number of fine precepts, partly from
their religion, partly from their bards, which they remember in their liquor
and forgot n their business." -
From "The Misfortunes of Elfin," by Thomas Love Peacock.
1S90
"From the mouths of the Dragon and the loves, from the swan's eyes.
from the satyrs' horns and lips; from the masks at many points, and from
the children's curls, the water played profusely, cutting. strange arabesquea
and subtle figures.".t
1?OR your own pro-
teCtion p a y your
bils by check.het
vouchers returned to
yu are legal
receip~ts.
The 'd Maithusian theory of too ; NEWELL BEBOUT 1face before
many people for a given world has cation is re:
wonn itself into the realm of edu-mrrww1 ad TL ,h1pe
cation. It made a poor showing be -crdimasits greatest rogresatudwemustgoalongwit read T he
fore t ms p;so inthe so it is trying the hands of broad men rather than er... vrsity shou
agaiijaother field. The argume intdeeonsat the hands of"great" mn You see, the ideal is to make con- though over
nwn 'S: "thathe tfmany Tougumen ater tans at the hands of pecats me cious individuals cut of all of us, and (children r'
andomens "tare tod ay noed n r Ther tar ar e moeds by Npeonals. you cannot do 'this by keeping most available to
S omen are today enroll;asses are moved by of us in the dark. "The conscious in- a may be i
universitts and that the country-vouid zcosevelts, Hugoc, Rousseaus, and Le~ dividual" says Warner Fite "is One fire wisdo
be better off if that attendance werecnines; not by the Leopardis, Flakes who knows what he is doing." It is re- oe yearni
by acme process or other, cut down." Pc, Lees, and Wilsns. And what is grotabie that most of us don't know iro heaver
Mr. Henry S. Prtche t, presi(ent o fi C s'otable stil is that the great what we are doing. sity te a m
the Carnegie Foundation for the A n ' e rise out of the mob and do not
n?; rp n l-°a ., I S true -that. our unlvers1ities (to . m -.a":
vanement of Teaching, asks t suddniy lay asidetheir text-hooks, Iot s tue haour unyiertess oo e pueraw
question i Scribner's magazine n scnyse trseir laucratory doors, and not seem tobimakinganyiimpressionsidcor-ew..e
May: "Are our Universities Overpo A~:"t to taie the position of leader which upon the asininity Of the race. It and wiggl
lated?" "Can a true university, Qe- is waiting for them. Oxcn ii te lab- would at least lock better if we had a and cats
voted to scholarship, to investigaton, atory they stay; and if they did come few scholars whose advancement we should be a
to high professional training," h out, they would ind no leadership could measure. Because we cannot should nve
queries, "be developed out of a con= waiting for them. This is the fallacy see improvement in the mass, though, One shou
glomerate institution whose under- in the grgument fo ' exclusion ; for is no argument that it is not there. Re- 'versity: "An
graduate activities are mainly athletic, aristocracy in culture. form always smoulders under the sur- renIain'd to
social, and comnetitive?" In short the Wrw
question is thxis: Should higher Tt -I e are confron~ted now with the pe- mse
culiar situation that we know too INTERPRETATIONSa
cation be demuccratic or aristocratic?;much already. Within the past hun- (Continued from Page One) cinating nu
Shculd we teach a few super-men : dred years we have advanced so fast time, and makes that feeling centure duce.
shouled we direct our instruction at a 1I
that we have not been able to digest at the heart, one could point only to And it a
multitude of robots? (all the things that we have learned. the violin. It is but natural. Not an- tc hr
Mr. Pritehett believes that "we have We are dizzy; and things whirl around other musical instrument can fit them Jeans
n this country no universities in the us. Things are in a whirl; that is why above the horizon of tyranny into a gre
strtct sense," tuat "teaching has be- w are "superficial they go too fast clear cerulean sky. The United States nei reh
coeo enormously diluted," and fur- for us to penetrate thew. It might has her self-taught statesmen and as a
thermore that a large pr'oportion of ! isap,"ointed
stuents "are atrated to the colleg be a good thing if we cloed all of our leaders of the RevolutionaryWar, to babe., or
byureans tat avtte or nothige laboratories and philosophical. think- who, because of a king's blindness, re- ig cab.or
to do with scholarly ambition."tHis ing rooms and halted learning iuntll belled, giving birth to the infant of a beepnthete
conclusins scar y atweshould Hgst we have mastered what we already 'mighty nation.
midnof our numbers, reduce athletic 'know. "Progress" writes E. W. Howe Thus always have causes proceeded turf eoG<
activities to a minimum, .and possibly in his "Ventures in Common Sense," hand in hand in bringing men to ofstior,
the u nderduate cossle "is slow because we are compelled to greatness. And so as with the greatoI
separate tgreatnrauatess.ee +Jew. Auer,
fromthe th drgraduate profeol wait for the fools to catch up." We of these lands has it been with theJ.an e
scom ther. a r cannot expect the fools to catch up if Jews. Environment and inner qualities many of the
sol loetr. nmer o Prtcettors we close the schools to them and say: have furthered them to- the ,peak. of a ters of the
editorsy nd publiciss ho h'odthese "Here, you stay behind, while we wise certain course these elements evolve 'ashe r
editors, and publicists who hold these sic o le' ,,; .opltlfm ntaohe nt and the re'
opinionss go ahead." so completely, for not another intru- .Victo
There is, however, a right side as The argument that our colleges are meut could make. those sorrows. and tege who wa
well as a wrong side to this question. predoiinantly social rather than woes which the Jew has encountered in the Ghet
I advocate not reduction of enrollment scholarly is very true; but it is weight- in his lifetime really surge through reputed to
ter more les Our churches also are but so- his whole body and yet allow him to ber, is Jewi
leges r rthan fewer students. This cial gatherings. One thing which the laugh= at them; or imbue him with a
may sound rashly idealistic but it is new socialism should have taught s sfeeling of that mystic spirit, te spirit er erentag
a fact that we can better afford to payth is that reform is best effected bymeet- that has played so great a part of hiso~~
out additional millions of dollars in ing the moron of his own level. It is' life, making him live with the song;
the hope of raising a desire for culture better to get in under him and push or be heart-rending and yet heart- The rev
in our nation than gwe can to save oure him up than to stand above him and soothing; or make him both weep and pearing in I
dollars for industry and leave our yell: "Come on." laugh. Therefore, it is that the Jew magazine w2
masses to the will of Hearst's "Detroit It is true also that when men and excels in the violin, has made him- bout.
Times" and to "Universal" serial mov- women are graduated from ncollege;
ies. The problem is one of broad fore- they show only a slight degree of pol-
sight instead of immediate economy. ish, that they are still great lumps of
It is a delusion. I think,' to argue ignorance. This, however, is no basis ' N TL IGE T AND i
that education is not worth while be- for saying that we should take a .few IlT .LIG ENI ALNT
cause it shows no very perceptible re- 1of them aside and refine them and
sults to the contemporary eye. Be- leave the rest alone. Let me illus-
cause it does not turn out scholars and trate: I have 'here a small test-tube Your bank should be sound ac
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geniuses is no condemnation of the
college as such. The college is a sort
of machine to be sure; but it is that
through no fault of its own; and evenf
though it is a machine it appears to
be our only hope of salvation from this!
artificial "civilization" in which we
are submerged.
Modern life is synthetic from the
very butter we get at the boarding
house to the music we hear from our
talking machines and the Jabber we I
listen to from our fellow beings. Ma-
chinery is running away with us. Sci-
ence has us overwhelmed. The sci-
entists themselves hardly know where
they are. Is it any wonder, then, that
our educational institutions have im-
bibed this mechanism which is in the
air? On the other hand, the public
school and the university are the only'
popular contact-which we have to cul-
ture; and since culture is our sole
exodus from parrotism, it follows that
our schools have the responsibility of
futurity upon their backs.
Should we, therefore, be exclusive
for the sake of exclusion or for theI
money that it will save; or should wer
consider whether or not exclusiveness,
is the best means of raising the stand-
ard of civilization? Can we, by educat-t
ing a few book-worms, endow the
great majority of working people with'
sufficient knowledge and sympathy toI
enable them to fill their leisure with
profitable reflection, and to afford them
some beautiful escape from the mo-,
notony of the life which twentieth cen-
tury industry requires them to live?
The truth is that specialization in
knowledge is no less harmful than
specialization in an automobile fac-
tory. It narrows a man and makes
him blind. The specialist, of course,
fromi a enemicai iaboratory. 1puce
in it a few pure ingredients from'
which I hope to produce clear crystal,
The test tube is necessarily small be-!
cause the ingredients are too pure
and are handled too carefully to be
used in large quantities. The result
of my experiment is some perfect
crystals; but they are only tiny ones.
Now I take a large test-tuibe and am
1 not so particular about refiningamy
ingredients; for I hofte to get largeC
crystals, though imperfect oness. I get
a large crystal. This large crystal is!
comparable to the great man in the
world, while the tiny crystals are
comparable to the specialists. Ob-
viously we can use both. But notice,
that in order to produce a "great"
man we have to crystallize a great
mass.
The world is in dire need of great
men. We need great men worse than
we need specialists. The aim of our
colleges should be to treat great mass-
'es as best it can-to treat great num-
hers-until suddenly a great man will
arise. What do I mean by: suddenly
a great man will arise? I mean that
gradually the mass will refine itself
and solidify itself until it forms a cry-
stal of ideals and opinions and truths.
When this happens, almost any in-
telligent man can turn a spot light on
the crystal and make it glisten. This
man or these will suddenly be "great
men."
The great man is developed out of,
the masses and necessarily so be-
cause lie must sympathize with other
and understand their ideals and their
troubles. He is an outdoor variety
of man. He is not pot-house plant
which is carefully pruned and watered
|in some arue graduate university" by
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efficient. But that is not enough
service to be of the most use to
be also intelligent and interested.
That is what this bank tries to b
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